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 * Copyright (c) 2012-2016 Codenvy, S.A.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *   Codenvy, S.A. - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.che.ide.ext.java.shared.dto.model;

import org.eclipse.che.dto.shared.DTO;

/**
 * Represents a method (or constructor) declared in a type.
 *
 * @author Evgen Vidolob
 * @author Valeriy Svydenko
 */
@DTO
public interface Method extends Member {
    /**
     * Returns the simple name of this method.
     * For a constructor, this returns the simple name of the declaring type.
     * Note: This holds whether the constructor appears in a source or binary type
     * (even though class files internally define constructor names to be <code>"&lt;init&gt;"</code>).
     * For the class initialization methods in binary types, this returns
     * the special name <code>"&lt;clinit&gt;"</code>.
     * This is a handle-only method.
     * @return the simple name of this method
     */
    String getElementName();

    void setElementName(String elementName);

    /** @return name of the return type */
    String getReturnType();

    void setReturnType(String returnType);

}
